1. Science and Tech Quiz Manjil P. Saikia Department of Mathematical Sciences Tezpur University manjil@gonitsora.com Slides available for download at http://gonitsora.comhttp://gonitsora.com 29-03-2012

2. Rules: 1. There will be 30 questions and one theme 2. There will be 7 ** questions which will clear any ties 3. The ** question has a theme, which if identified equals 2 points 4. Each correct answer except the theme will fetch 1 point 5. There are no negatives throughout the quiz 6. The Quiz Masters decision is the final decision

3. Warm Up What will this equation give when plotted in a graph?

5. **1. What is their most famous product?

6. Angry Birds

7. **2. Connect

8. Calculus Pic 1: Godfrey Leibniz (one of the founders of calculus) Pic 2: Prof. Calculus (a fictional character) Pic 3: Calculus in teeth Pic 4: Calculus as in kidney stone etc.

9. **3. Connect

10. Pic 1: Logo of Carlsberg Pic 2: Neils Bohr Carlsberg Group sponsored the Neils Bohr Institute at Copenhagen in the 1920s and 1930s.

11. 4. Who are they?

12. Frank Duckworth Tony Lewis

13. **5. Which philosophy? A traveller through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of ______, but it will have various aspects. ________ does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve? -Nelson Mandela

15. 6. Connect with a person.

16. Joseph Fourier

17. 7. Identify this mathematician.

18. Charlie Epps

19. **8. Connect.

20. ISI Pic 1: Inter-State Intelligence, Pakistan's coat of arms Pic 2: P. C. Mahalanobis, founder of Indian Statistical Institute Pic 3: Tezpur University, where the latest ISI centre is situated

21. 9. Connect.

22. Viagra Pic 1: Pfizer who sells the brand Viagra Pic 2 and 3: Chemical composition of Viagra (Sildenafil)

23. 10. On whose life is this based?

24. Subhash Mukhopadhyay

25. 11. Whose homepage starts like this: ___________ (( 高德纳 )), Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, welcomes you to his home page.

26. Donald E. Knuth

27. 12. What is the name of this mathematical figure/curve?

29. **13. Whose blackboard?

31. 14. What is missing?

32. The word “muslim”. The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate" but, because of Salam's adherence to the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, the word "Muslim" was later erased on the orders of a local magistrate, leaving the nonsensical "First Nobel Laureate". Under Ordinance XX, Ahmadis are considered non-Muslims.

33. 15. What?

34. Aryabhatta Satelite

35. 16. Founder of what?

37. 17. New avatar?

39. 18.

41. 19. Connect

42. Apple Pic 1: Alan Turing (commited suicide by eating a poisoned apple) Pic 2: Doctor (the famous saying) Pic 3: Newton (the famous story) Pic 4: Infinite Loop in C (Apple Inc HQ is at 1, Infinite Loop)

43. 20. First what?

44. Electronic Computer ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and calculator

45. **21. Connect.

46. Servers at TU Agnigarh (Webmail) Agnee (Students Webmail) Usha (General) Brahmagupta (Mathematical Sciences) Manas (CSE)

47. 22. Why is he unfortunate?

48. He is Elisha Gray, who missed out on a patent of the telephone!

49. 23. Which technology?

50. DTSi Digital Twin Spark Ignition

51. 24. Whose death did Franklin and Gosling announce on 18 th July 1952?

53. 25. Name of the record.

55. 26. What is this?

56. Google Earth's recreation of ancient Rome

57. 27. He is Endre Szemeredi. What did he win recently?

58. Abel Prize

59. 28. How is the 125 th birth anniversary year of S. Ramanujan celebrated in India right now?

60. National Mathematics Year

61. 29. The awards?

62. Ig Nobel Prizes

63. 30. Connect.

64. JAVA The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside one of the founder’s office (that’s the pic of an Oak tree); it went by the name Green (Suggested by the pic of Green Day) later, and was later renamed Java, from a list of random words.

65. Theme!!

66. Fibonacci Numbers 1 2 3 5 8 13 21

67. Thank You!!